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LEGO Ghostbusters Movie

Paul Feig's Ghostbusters won't start haunting theaters until next month, but here's the next best thing (or the best thing, depending on which fan you talk to): a Lego remake of Ivan Reitman's iconic 1984 comedy!

In a dazzling display of Internet fandom, the family-friendly team behind Digital Wizards Studios pooled together "$100,000 of Lego bricks" and spent "2,000 hours over the last five months" to bring everyone to Spook Central.

The end result is something that's best described as "adorable." In a little under five minutes, the clip manages to capture the most iconic beats of the legendary film, making for one stunning sliver of pop culture. How they handle Venkman's epic line to Peck is something that'll tickle every punmaster.

Oh, and here are a few fun facts to put their grand ambition in perspective: 1. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is played by a 10 year old, 2. The video features five of the most valuable Lego sets produced (Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, and Mr. Gold), and 3. 140 different miniature figures appear in the largest city scene. The makes of the LEGO Ghostbusters Remake have surely earned themselves a Crunch bar!

The LEGO Ghostbusters Remake also features references to other pop culture franchises, such as Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scooby Doo, and Star Wars:

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”